Last week there was a lot of hand-wringing over a photo of Willow Smith, 13, laying across a bed while a 20 year-old Disney actor named Moises Arias was seated shirtless behind her. Arias is a friend of the Smith family and he has denied that the picture was anything other than innocent. Arias defended the photo by saying that he considers the Smiths his second family and thinks of Willow as his “little sister.”
I wrote that the photo made me wonder who was parenting Willow, and if she had appropriate adult supervision around her. I think the answer is clearly “no,” especially after Jada Pinkett Smith called everyone who dared question the photo “covert pedophiles… projecting your trash.” We’ve also heard The Smiths say multiple times that they consider their kids little adults who can make their own decisions.
Now a photo has surfaced of Jaden Smith, 15, sitting in bed in just his undies while Kylie Jenner, 16, hugs him from behind. This photo was posted by Kylie to Tumblr on April 29, which was well before the big scandal over Willow’s photo. (HuffPo just brought it to people’s attention.) Of course someone else is taking the photo and we don’t know the situation. It’s likely this is by the same photographer as Willow’s picture as it’s also in black and white. All of these kids went to Coachella together so this was probably taken then.
Considering the timing I don’t think Kylie and Jaden are trolling us, they just think it’s normal to post photos like this to social media. They’re kids, they don’t see anything wrong with doing their thing and posting intimate photos online. I don’t want to think too hard about what that means exactly. To me I just see underage kids whose parents need to pay more attention to what their children are doing and have a serious talk with them. You know that’s not going to happen though. Kris Jenner loves the publicity and Jada and Will Smith think their son and daughter are super mature at 15 and 13 and can do whatever they want. They have a lot of time free, too, considering that both the Smith and Jenner siblings are homeschooled.
photo credit: WENN.com, Getty and FameFlynet
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